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...stories in The Trouble With Tigers. The other half-exhibiting Saroyan's fiercest inhaling and exhaling to date-consists of stories about Hollywood and essays on the contemporary idiocy of Man in general. Besides working last year as a cinema writer, Saroyan evidently studied up on Dostoyevsky and Whitman...
...Garden, this was apparently meant to show Sculpture for the Home. Sculptor William Zorach's Youth won a great deal of admiration for its clean-cut and subtle modeling; Robert Cronbach's well-constructed little group Industry, and Warren Wheelock's exuberant figure of Walt Whitman, Salut an Monde (see cut), showed a new ease with planes and masses. Both made art critics wish for their enlargement to a less inti mate scale, and Wheelock's conception of Old Brooklynite Whitman stirred up local talk of monumentalizing the poet. In Manhattan, meanwhile. Justin Sturm, famed...
Wagner's boat: Pirnie, Fowler, Whitman, Moffat, Homans, Bittenbender, Woods, Shortiedge...
...That Whitman was a democrat everybody knows. But nobody has shown as clearly as Mr. Arvin what Whitman's democracy meant: stump speeches for the luckless Martin Van Buren, support for Tyler the Whig when Tyler took up Andrew Jackson's old fight against the United States Bank, disgust with party politics during the Democratic sellout before the Civil War, and always "strong images of a democratic and equal life-of 'ordinary' men and women working, building, making things, growing things, sailing ships, fighting battles, eating and drinking, singing, marching." Whitman was no Utopian socialist, says...
...working out exactly what he was, Mr. Arvin formulates a credo for democrats which is affirmative without being sentimental, sums it up best in Whitman's own language: "We've got a hell of a lot to learn yet, before we're a real democracy: we've gone beyond all the others, very far beyond some, but we're far from having yet achieved our dream. . . . We'll get there in the end: God knows we're not there...